comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:18 +0100
Date: 2011-02-20T22:26:18+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vq70h40tlzeukk@jellix.jlfencey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D61848C.2040504@obry.net

Pascal Obry wrote:

>> My preferred plan B would link to MPI, which distributes mpi-tasks
>> over the available cores.  I don't know if that will work either!
>
> That won't be better. MPI is for non shared memory used in clusters.

Sure?

I may remember the MPI-Spec wrong, but parallelizing for-loops on a
cluster do not seem a very efficient way and that was at least one of
the things the specification described. And MPI was generally designed
as (C-)compiler extension, so clusters do not seem an appropriate target
neither.


Vinzent.

-- 
You know, we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon,
and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder.
Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
   --  Rockhound, "Armageddon"



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 22:52 Need some light on using Ada or not Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-18 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 14:25   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19  0:20 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-20  0:13   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20  1:36     ` Marc A. Criley
2011-02-20  9:59     ` mockturtle
2011-02-20 10:37     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 11:08     ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01  8:10     ` Adrian Hoe
2011-03-01  8:29       ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-04 13:34         ` Adrian Hoe
2011-02-19  8:43 ` Vadim Godunko
2011-02-19 13:07 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:17   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19 18:02     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 18:07       ` Bill Findlay
2011-02-20 10:42         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:36   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 18:25     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 14:34       ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 15:45         ` jonathan
2011-02-20 16:18           ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:49           ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 19:57             ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 20:10               ` jonathan
2011-02-20 21:15                 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:26                   ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2011-02-20 21:33                     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 21:36                     ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:50                       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 22:18                   ` jonathan
2011-02-20 22:47               ` Simon Wright
2011-02-21 12:52                 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-21 13:44                   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-24  0:19                     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-24  7:41                       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2011-02-22  2:15                   ` Shark8
2011-02-20 16:42       ` jonathan
2011-02-20 20:02         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20  0:20   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20 10:50     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:54     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-23 22:19       ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-24 17:06         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-27 17:51           ` Luis P. Mendes
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox